Author: negeeny
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Traversing the cityscape: locating age-friendly, age inclusion and age equity
This chapter examines global ageing and health paradigms, which provide the (g)local context for policies, care programs and care practices to support older adults’ ageing. Using scoping review methods, the chapter explores how these paradigms have shifted to include both individualised responsibility for ageing and welfare state strategies that aim to improve conditions within which…
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Ageing with Care: Aiming for Equity and Inclusion
This chapter argues that age equity and decent care work must be key considerations in imagining a truly age-friendly world. First, it outlines the assumptions underlying the book’s concept of ‘age equity with care’. Second, it describes the collaborative research project to identify age-equitable policies and practices that has stimulated the development of this concept,…
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Decent Care Work: Politics, Policy, Resistance, and Struggle
Donna Baines, Susan Braedley and Tamara Daly (alphabetical Editors) (January 2025) “Decent Care Work: Politics, Policy, Resistance, and Struggle”, Special Theme, Studies in Political Economy, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsor20/current
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Aging Equitably with Care: Power, Policy, Practice
What are the consequences of growing old and needing care in a world shaped by inequality? Who provides the care? What are the challenges? This groundbreaking book delves into conditions for ageing and caring, asking how they could be improved for different communities living in high-income welfare states. Emphasizing that equitable ageing depends on equitable…
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Another Toronto nursing home says it will shut down, as deadline for 31 license renewals draws nearer
When North Park Nursing Home closes its doors, 75 beds will be lost, in addition to the loss of 393 beds from three previous closures. Read full article here
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Can Ontario force hospital patients into long-term care homes? It’s complicated
https://app.meltwater.com/newsletters/analytics/view/5d24d1a05056e0438086bbee/distribution/63087a7170b7b70014bc8a6f/document/4XtPyDG1pbBetNsMxkubNvnYfa8
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Doug Ford is spending billions to expand nursing home chains with some of the worst COVID-19 death rates
The end result is locking decades worth of taxpayer dollars into an antiquated model of elderly care that’s failed during the pandemic.
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Ontario election gives voters the chance to choose people over profits in long-term care
Tamara Daly, Professor of Health Policy, Gender and Work; and Director of York University Centre for Aging Research and Education, York University, Canada
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Market Place Investigation Finds Neglect of Care…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/home-care-support-private-companies-1.6387911